F-Droid Privileged Extension OTA app
Note: F-Droid requires root privileges to install Privileged Extensionas a system "priv-app".
https://www.openapk.net/f-droid/org.fdroid.fdroid/ can make use of system privileges or permissions
to install, update and remove applications on its own. The only way to
obtain those privileges is to become a system app.
This is where the Privileged Extension comes in - being a separate app
and much smaller, it can be installed as a system app and communicate
with the main app via AIDL IPC.
This has several advantages:
* Reduced disk usage in the system partition
* System updates don't remove F-Droid
* The process of installing into system via root is safer
This is packaged as an OTA (Over-The-Air) update ZIP file. It must be
installed using TWRP or other Android recovery that can flash updates
to the system from the /data/data/org.fdroid.fdroid folder on the
/data partition. The standalone APK is called
https://www.openapk.net/f-droid/org.fdroid.fdroid/.privileged, and that provides updates after this
OTA package is installed.
